Nailing-tool.



0. W FIELD.

NAILING TOOL. APPLICATION FILED MAR.6, 1'911.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

(IX Q WITH EEEE L'OLI'MIHA PLAN UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. FIELD, OF FREEPORT, MAINE.

NAILING-TOOL.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. FIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Freeport, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nailing-Tools,-

of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to improvements in nailing tools and is designed to provide means for arranging nails in orderly succession, then selecting one and moving it from the mass into position where it can be hit with a hammer to start it and then releasing it.

In the drawing herewith accompanying and forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved tool; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the same; and Fig. 4: is .a detailed perspective view of a portion of the device.

The same reference characters indicate like parts in the several figures.

In said drawing A is a magazine adapted to receive a quantity of nails in mass. The magazine is provided in the bottom with a longitudinal slot B. Secured to the bottom of the magazine and extending beyond the free end thereof is a two sided race G into which the slot in the magazine opens. The slot in the bottom of the magazine and in the race is wide enough to allow the body of a nail to fall through, but not wide enough to permit the head to fall through. The race has a flaring top D extending from a point inside the magazine to a short distance beyond the end thereof and the race is offset downwardly slightly below the bottom of the magazine so that the nails passing along the slot of the magazine into the race are thus permitted to descend slightly below the bottom of the magazine, so that;

when the tool is shaken, the nails are prevented from returning into the magazine. The long side of the race, at a little distance in advance of the flaring top D, is ofiset laterally toward the other side, as seen at E, and is then offset downwardly, as seen at F. To the short side of the race is attached a leaf spring G, the free end extending slightly beyond the short side of the race and to a point adjacent the shoulder I-I formed by the downward offset of the long side of the race, as seen at F. Pivotally attached to the under side of the mag-' azine, as at I, is a lever J, to the free end Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 6, 1911.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

Serial No. 612,528.

of which is secured a plunger K adapted to reciprocate longitudinally along the short side of the race, the end passing through a loop L secured to the race,-a reciprocating motion being imparted to the plunger by means of the finger applied to a finger hold M on lever J, said lever being adapted to be returned automatically to the normal position by means of a spring arm N projecting through a hole 0 in the lever and thence extending rearwardly and terminating in a coil around the pivot I. The forward end of the plunger is provided with a recess P which, when the plunger is retracted, is coincident with the ofiset portion E of the race. The bottom of the magazine is provided with diagonal positioned guides Q spaced apart from the forward end and extending nearly to the slot, and between said guides Q and the front end of the magazine is a hood-shaped plate It adapted to cover the slot and race at the inner end, the hood and guides serving to position the nails in the magazine and prevent them from clogging in the forward end of the magazine. An opening in the front end of the magazine over the race is adapted to be closed by a vertically sliding shutter S.

The operation of my improved nailing tool is as follows: A quantity of nails in mass are turned into the magazine and then the magazine is shaken slightly and the nails, more or less of them, will position themselves in the slot and when the magazine is tipped forwardly and downwardly they slide by gravity out of the slot into the race, the forward one passing into the recess in the plunger. The plunger is then moved forwardly by means of the operating lever carrying with it the nail in the recess, the

other nails being prevented from passing out of the race. The plunger is moved forward to about midway the offset portion F and is then placed in position to be set, the head of the nail projecting above the projection F of the race. It is then struck with a hammer and partially driven. Pressure is then renewed on the plunger and the plunger reacting against the nail, which serves then as a stop, causes the magazine to move backwardly until the nail passes beyond the proj ection F. The plunger is then removed and the spring from the nail released returns the plunger to normal position, when another nail passes into the recess therein and the operation may be repeated.

Having thus described my invention and its use, I claim:

1. In a nailing tool, a magazine provided with a slot in the bottom and a race leading out of said slot, one side of the race being longer than the other and offset toward the shorter side at a point adjacent the end of the shorter side, a plunger provided With a nail receiving recess on its inner side positioned adjacent the shorter side of the race, and means for imparting a forward move ment to said plunger.

2. In a nailing tool, a magazine provided With a slot in the bottom and a race leading out of said slot, one side of the race being longer than the other and oifset toward the shorter side at a point adjacent the end of the shorter side, the offset extending downwardly beloW the top of the race, a plunger provided With a nail receiving recess on its inner side positioned adjacent the shorter side of the race, and means for imparting a forward movement to said plunger.

3. In a nailing tool, a magazine provided with a slot in the bottom anda race leading out of said slot, one side of the race being with a slot in the bottom and a race leading out of said slot, one side of the'race being longer than the other and offset toward the shorter side at a point adjacent the end of the shorter side, a plunger provided With a nail receiving recess on its inner side positioned adjacent the shorter side of the race, a leaf spring secured to the shorter side of the race, the free end of the said spring extending to a point adjacentthe short side of the race, and means for imparting a forward movement to said plunger.

CHARLES WV. FIELD.

lVitnesses:

ELGIN C. VERRILL, MARY C. PAGE.

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